I knew you'd return, brave Defenders of Earth! Welcome back to the RPGDL, home of great fights and great friends! We're proud to bring you Week Two of Season Nineteen, filled with intrigue, mayhem, and lots of hilarious outcomes. First off, The Results await, dear readers! Find out if Sephiroth still retains his stranglehold on the DL Godlike division, or if he's been usurped! And don't forget the other divisions: Was Thursday able to overwhelm the Mad Monarch Dryst? Was the legendary warrior Odin strong enough to tackle the assassin Kanon? And was Karyl able to stop the onslought of the powerful and nigh-unstoppable Miluda Folles? Find out, inside, dear readers! And now, Defenders, harken towards The Arena, where the best moments of the season are in the making! Starting at Godlike, prepare to marvel at one of the grandest battles we've yet seen. Seed, recent Heavy champ, has found his way to the DL's most powerful division. And his opponent: Fou-Lu, back from a long hiatus. Will the newest Godlike warrior prove strong enough to take down one of Godlike's finest? In Heavy, prepare for a very heavy battle...literally! Borgan, a heart attack waiting to happen, engages the giant Final Aeon in a rough fight that is sure to leave dieticians passed out on the floor in agony! Middle is home to one of the greatest heroes in the DL this week: namely Joachim Valentine, otherwise known as Grand Papillon! Watch as he battles the vile evil of Alma Beoulve, and shows the world what a true Defender Spirit can do! Not even the ultimate evil of the world of Final Fantasy Tactics will stand in his way! And finally, it's the greatest battle Light has ever seen: the popular musical artist Alanis engages in battle with Cinna, mastery of dressing in cooking wear. With a stint as God in a previous movie adventure, there's no stopping this girl on her way to victory! Don't delay, dear readers! You can't miss out on this! With the initial ranking just a week away, make sure you're signed up for the RPGDL Forums! You wouldn't want to miss a chance to see your favourite game in the DL, now would you? And here it goes again! Miss Chisato Madison's special report on all that's happening here, Behind the Scenes! Let's get started: Welcome to Behind the Scenes, now with 35% fewer casualties than your average train wreck! I'm Gilgamesh, they're Morte, Ultros, and Odin, and here's the star of our show, Chisato Madison! Can't talk. Training. Well, that kind of puts a damper in our hopes of hosting a talk show, wouldn't it? Doesn't matter. You have to host the show, Chisato. Sure, right after my workout. Whatever. Let's just do this and get it over with. If Little Miss Needs To Train won't host it, we will. Fine. Our Light guests today are Chisato, who obviously won't be talking to us, and Cinna. Hello! Cinna? I know that Light's nothing but a bunch of losers, but couldn't you do better than that? It was either that, or some drag queen from the desert. But at least that would have been interesting. You do know that I can hear you, right? You say that like you expect them to care. Cinna, you're fighting one of the youngest Suikoden mages out there, a combination that typically means frailty. How do you feel about your chances? I can win! And then I'll be as popular as Zidane! You're joking, right? Nope! Zidane told me that everyone loves him here. Now that's sad. Hey, Chisato, could you beat some sense into this guy? Sure. I need a training dummy, and Odin's too soft. I prefer to think of myself as tender. Only in your head, Moppy. Now for Middle. Our esteemed guests tonight are Cid Highwind and Odessa. It's really @#$%@^$ great to be here. Hello. Odessa, how does it feel to be obsessed over by a slightly demented paramour? It's a little creepy. Flik is a nice guy and all, but the way he behaved over my death wasn't exactly reassuring. Hey, don't $%#@^@# knock obession. I mean, if it wasn't for Cloud's focus on A... Don't say it. We don't need a Spoiler Squad team busting in. At least Flik's gotten a taste of his own medicine, though. True. Any plans to take down Oswin? I'll just have to hit harder and more often than he does. That's it. And the pseudo-dragoon's plan to best the pseudo-dragon? I'm gonna blast that *#@@*# out of the @#$@ skies! You know, I'm sure I could teach you much better curses. Train a couple of days with me, and you could make all your pilot buddies curl up into a little weeping ball. I don't know... Join me. It is your destiny... Eh, why the @*$% not? Morte, get back here! You can't shirk your duty! Sorry, what was that? I couldn't hear it over your grunts from your punching. Point for the skull. You know, maybe I do need a softer target. Get over here! No! Please! I bruise easily! Well, it's just you and me now, Gilgy. Wanna blow this thing and go home? Nah, we're here, we might as well finish this. You know your problem? You work too hard. Heavy brings us Sgt. Joe and Jecht. Hey. Heh. I'm the greatest! Sarge, facing a fellow Middle champion upgrader in the opening round. Any thoughts about that? Well, it's not the draw I would have hoped for. But it's a good way to prove I belong here. Lilly's been gently ribbing me about how I should be back in Middle. Gently ribbing from Lilly? Are you sure that it wasn't just her ordering you around? She's bossy, but she's a good girl. I'm just glad I don't have to hand around her, though. Jecht? You call those pushups, you wimp! My crybaby boy could do better than that! Oh, really... then perhaps you should show me how to do it. All right, now the first thing you have to do is get down on your hands and knees... Which rather conveniently leaves you wide open for a sneak attack with a flamethrower... Aagh! Now for Godlike... who do we have? Well, we had some problems with that. Seed was in far too recently, Ryu can't speak, Fou-Lu didn't want to come if Ryu didn't, Roger Bacon got into a philosophical debate with Roger Bacon, Rika's boring, and Chisato would never let Indalecio into her studio. So? That should still leave... oh no... Could you please stop hitting me? Die, pig! There can be only one most durable Godlike, and there's no way it's you! I don't care about any stupid title, but you're really bothering me, so quit it! I would if you would just fall down! Graah! Back and forth, back and forth... it's... almost hypnotic. Yes... hypnotic... *sigh* If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. Thank you for watching, and feel free to see me win this week in the arena. Until then, so long.